These are some pictures I have taken of unexpected crash screens. Just as with my Toilets of the World page, I am only interested in crash screens I see and photograph myself. So no, I do not want me to mail you ones you see. Create your own page and gain all the fame and fortune this one has brought me.
Detroit airport (DTW), flight status system, 2051 local, 19 Dec 2005.
Detroit airport (DTW), flight status system, 2051 local, 19 Dec 2005.
Detroit airport (DTW), flight status system, 0946 local, 23 July 2006. The display had been frozen for 46 minutes.
On board Northwest Airlines flight 32, Detroit to London Gatwick, 4 Feb 2006. The Airbus 330 seatback entertainment systems run Linux. It appears to be an ARM embedded system with a CramFS file system, beyond that the reboot was too fast to keep track. If you stress the entertainment application enough, it will crash and init will halt the system. After about 60 seconds, some watchdog chips notices this and resets the system.
See the Linux Journal article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7108 for someone's report about this.
On board Northwest Airlines flight 31, London Gatwick to Detroit, 16 Feb 2006. Yes, I managed to crash the mapping application in both directions. My method was:
Northwest now gives you a card reading "To prevent lockup, expect a brief delay when pressing any key." In other words, give it time to catch up after every button press. I am unimpressed by the application's resilience. Of course, this is the same environment where a card printed in several languages gives you instructions to follow in case you cannot read the card....
Houston's George Bush International Airport (IAH), flight status system, 1121 local, 21 January 2007.
Houston's George Bush International Airport (IAH), flight status system, 1406 local, 28 January 2007.
Yes, just one week later I passed back through and saw a different bank of monitors crashed again.
Minneapolis-Saint-Paul (MSP) airport, an advertising screen in the shopping center in the main hall.
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